Does defibrillation threshold increase as left ventricular ejection fraction decreases?

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-388

  Val Mejias, Jesus E ^a   Oza, Ashish ^b  

^a Galichia Heart Hospital Kansas   (United States)

^b ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation threshold; Ejection fraction; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAVEFORM;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CALIBRATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77749320077     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup408     Document Type: Article

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